Dear Friends,
It is my pleasure to
send you my Fall 2022 list of books, albeit in difficult times,
since the overall situation has significantly changed for the
worse on account of the war in Ukraine, in addition to the
crisis caused by a pandemic neither overcome nor defeated.
To take a step back from the general
tension, let me start with our book on Russian filmmaker
Andrei Tarkovsky. The survey of his great œuvre is one of
the most beautiful and impressive documents of Russian art in
the second half of the 20th century.
Our Fall program
features a wealth of new publications worth seeing and reading.
Wolfgang Kemp and Catharina Berents submit a historical study on
photography at the court of Napoleon III in Paris, focussing on
the Contessa di Castiglione and the French photographer
Olympe Aguado. Amanda Holmes and Hubertus Gassner explore
the buildings and art collection of British aristocrat Edward
James, a patron of Salvador Dalí and Magritte. His marks as
a writer – he financed the Surrealist magazine Minotaure
–, his breathtaking art collection, and his stunning homes are
the subject of our book. Our series of 20th-century masters
continued with Picasso’s self-portraits and Wols‘
water colors.
Book groups on Marilyn Monroe
who died 60 years ago on August 4, on August Sander,
Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Joseph Beuys complete our
program. On July 15, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, is
opening a Bernd and Hilla Becher exhibition that will
subsequently travel to San Francisco. We are celebrating this
event with the presentation of our matchless Becher edition and
a publication on the Becher-Haus in Mudersbach, with
photographs by Laurenz Berges and an essay by
Hanns-Josef Ortheil.
Last but not least, we
offer a new edition of our Café Lehmitz book by Anders
Petersen. Tom Waits has written a splendid foreword
that will also introduce the American edition of this pinnacle
of European documentary photography.
Thank you for your
attention. I wish you great pleasure and success with our new
books.

Lothar Schirmer, May 2022
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